A draw. And as with most draws, this thoroughly entertaining one — which occasionally teetered on the edge of anarchy — asked more questions than it answered.

Tottenham Hotspur battled for most of the second half with 10 men after Davinson Sanchez’s rash dismissal and even in stoppage time Watford were still rapping on Spurs’ door.

The home side failed to create many clear-cut chances, although Abdoulaye Doucoure hit the inside of Hugo Lloris’s post, but they might have won it in late on had Eric Dier’s handball of Richarlison’s cross not gone unpunished.